Ken Jesensky kick-started Dr. Phillips' upset of favorite Evans by running a 1-minute, 54.7-second leg of the record-setting 4x800 relay (8:01.4). Sprinters Chris Hargrett and Ryan Moore closed out the victory with a one-two finish in the 200 meters.

"Truthfully, we were running for second [place]," Jesensky said of the relay, in which Evans holds the state's second-fastest time. "We wanted to stay as close to them as possible, but we switched around our order and got off to a great start and then kept it up."

DP matched Evans' sensational Jamal Torrance and Edgewater's Lester Singletary with wave after wave of athletes like Hargrett in the 100 and 200, Moore in the jumps and relays, Jesensky in the distance events.

"We came into the meet No. 2 on paper," Leonard said, but our guys know championships aren't won on paper. You win it on the track, and we did."

Stamper said 16 of his athletes scored points as the Pioneers outscored runner-up Dr. Phillips 157-124. Edgewater was third.

But none were more outstanding than sophomore LaVera Morris and freshman Britney Wilson. Morris set two Metro records in winning the 1,600 (5:03.02) and 800 (2:14.80) and anchored the winning 4x400 relay (3:56.65) that missed a Metro mark by one-hundredths of a second.

Wilson won the 100 and 200 and ran the breakaway leg of the 4x400 relay. Vicki Chin also won the 300 hurdles and ran a leg of the relay.

The other Metro record to fall belonged to Torrance, who lowered the 400 mark to 47.23. Other top performances were a distance double by Boone's Daniel Parker, and 300 hurdles by Evans' Jerome Francis and the 4x100 relay by Edgewater's boys. Parker ran his fastest times of the year in the 1,600 (4:16.14) and 3,200 (9:22.20). Francis beat a fast field in 38.14 and Singletary anchored Edgewater's relay (41.79) to one of the state's four fastest times.